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# Marquis de Sade

(1740–1814)   Prose Writer   Kingdom of France

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Marquis de Sade was a prose writer from the Kingdom of France, best known for *Justine*.

## Quick Facts About Marquis de Sade

Born June 2, 1740

Died December 2, 1814

Nationality Kingdom of France

Profession Prose Writer

Notable works Justine

Known for Juliette, The 120 Days of Sodom, Justine

Spouse Renée-Pélagie de Sade

## About Marquis de Sade

Donatien Alphonse François, the Marquis de Sade, was a French writer, libertine, political activist and nobleman. He wrote novels, short stories, plays, dialogues and political tracts. Some of his works were published under his own name while he was alive, but most appeared anonymously or were released after his death. He is best remembered for his libertine novels and for the imprisonments he faced because of sex crimes, blasphemy and pornography.

##  Quotes by Marquis de Sade · Page 5

> [Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/is-it-not-a-strange-blindness-on-our-part-to-teach-publicly-the/)

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> [Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/sex-should-be-a-perfect-balance-of-pain-and-pleasure-without-that/)

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> [Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/prejudice-is-the-sole-author-of-infamies-how-many-acts-are-so/)

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> [The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/the-pleasure-of-the-senses-is-always-regulated-in-accordance-with-the/)

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> [There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/there-is-no-more-lively-sensation-than-that-of-pain-its-impressions/)

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> [Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/here-am-i-at-one-stroke-incestuous-adulteress-sodomite-and-all-that/)

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> [Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/certain-souls-may-seem-harsh-to-others-but-it-is-just-a-way-beknownst/)

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> [All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/all-all-is-theft-all-is-unceasing-and-rigorous-competition-in-nature/)

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> [How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/how-delightful-are-the-pleasures-of-the-imagination-in-those/)

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> [“Throw those Germans into a carriage, will you,” said he to one of his hirelings, a man who was accustomed to doing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/throw-those-germans-into-a-carriage-will-you-said-he-to-one-of-his/)

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> [In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/in-libertinage-nothing-is-frightful-because-everything-libertinage/)

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> [“Now we come to the crux of my philosophy: if the taking of pleasure is enhanced by the criminal character of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/now-we-come-to-the-crux-of-my-philosophy-if-the-taking-of-pleasure-is/)

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> [What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/what-do-i-see-in-the-god-of-that-infamous-sect-if-not-an-inconsistent/)

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> [Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/chimerical-and-empty-being-your-name-alone-has-caused-more-blood-to/)

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> [It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/it-is-certain-that-stealing-nourishes-courage-strength-skill-tact-in/)

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> [“I should like to find a crime with perpetual repercussions, which would continue even after I had ceased to act, so there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/i-should-like-to-find-a-crime-with-perpetual-repercussions-which/)

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> [The heart deceives, because it is never anything but the expression of the minds miscalculations I dont know what the heart is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/the-heart-deceives-because-it-is-never-anything-but-the-expression-of/)

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> [Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/never-may-an-act-of-possession-be-exercised-upon-a-free-being-the/)

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> [Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/any-punishment-that-does-not-correct-that-can-merely-rouse-rebellion/)

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> [The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/the-mechanism-that-directs-government-cannot-be-virtuous-because-it/)

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> [Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/hope-is-the-most-sensitive-part-of-a-poor-wretch-s-soul-whoever/)

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                        "text": "In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution... even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.",
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                        "text": "“Now we come to the crux of my philosophy: if the taking of pleasure is enhanced by the criminal character of the circumstances -- if, indeed, the pleasure taken is directly proportionate to the severity of the crime involved --, then is it not criminality itself which is pleasurable, and the seemingly pleasure-producing act nothing more than the instrument of its realization?”",
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                        "text": "What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow; what do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!",
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                        "text": "Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.",
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                        "text": "It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.",
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                        "text": "“I should like to find a crime with perpetual repercussions, which would continue even after I had ceased to act, so there would not be a single instant of my life, not even when I was asleep, when I would not be causing some sort of disorder, a disorder so extensive as to involve general corruption, or so absolute a disturbance that its effect would be prolonged even when my life had ceased.”",
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